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#2 Washer Coal

Commonwealth Mining Corporation No. 2 · Facility

Controlled by Charles D Mullins

Appalachia, Wise County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407095

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2004
Latest incident: Aug 2004

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

citations

significant & substantial

$2,714

proposed penalties

$2,555

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	Per 1M hrs
2009 Q3	0	0
2009 Q2	0	0
2009 Q1	0	0
2008 Q4	1,315	0	0.0
2008 Q3	2,730	0	0.0
2008 Q2	3,385	0	0.0
2008 Q1	3,379	1	295.9
2007 Q4	3,145	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2004 · 1 incident

August 11, 2004 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

Commonwealth Mining Corporation No. 2 · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS OPERATING VOLVO A25 TRUCK, GOING DOWN AN INCLINE. NO ONE KNOWS WHY, BUT EE JUMPED OUT OF TRUCK. UPON HITTING THE GROUND, EE BROKE HIS ANKLE, FRACTURED HIS HIP, AND SUSTAINED A CONCUSSION. WE ARE ASSUMING THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED, SINCE EE COULD NOT REMEMBER THE ACCIDENT.